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` GARMENI PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION lILED JUNE 3,19I6.

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C. A. CONOVER.

GAHNIENT PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3. Isls.

Patented J une 12, 1917.

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Specification of Letters atent.

Patented JT une 12, 1911*?.

Application filed June 3, 1916. Serial No. 101,475.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, CLAUDE A. CoNovnR,

a citizen of the United States. und a resi- My invention relates to the protection of clothing when not in use, and the niuin ob ject thereof is to provide a container which may be adapted for use with evening on holiday clothing, or which may be adapted for the protection of Vclothing against moths during the summer months. y

My invention is of the bag type and, while I am aware that protect-ors of this type are now in use, my protector presents certain novel features over any new known to me, both as to structure and as to the facility in placing clothing therein.

My invention is fully described in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which like characters refer to like parts .in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a closed View of my protector in use, partly broken away;

Fig. 2 is a view thereof open and showing the manner of placing clothing therein or removing the same therefrom;

Fig. 3 is a View similar to Fig. 2 but showing a modification thereover;

Fig. 4; is a bottom end View of the protee tor, fragmentarily; and

Fig. 5 is a detached View of an upper frame which I employ to hold the protector in shape and to serve as a support for depending garment hangers.

The protector consists primarily of a bag G oblong in iform and composed of either fabric, paper,` or other suitable material of a lleXible orfoldahle nature, said bag being open at its top though adapted to be closed by a drawstring 7.

Attached to opposite sides of the bag G, at points on a plane well above the bottomofthc bag, as shown at S Fig. Q, are fabric strips .1 secured at their upper ends to a frame 10 shown as of Wire bent to provide a retangte` lar portion 1l and longitudinally arranged bars 12, and said frame isadapted to be suspended from a rod 13 or hook or suitable equivalent Within a closet by means of a looped member 14 connected wit-h the corners of the frame 10 by means of strips 15.

`When the drawstring 7 has been released and the open top of the bag expanded the portion of the bag above the lines of stitching S may drop to give access to the space between the strips 9 and to the frame 10 whereby clothing may be suspended from the latter or may be readily removed therefrom, the strips 9 being preferably made of a length equaling or approximating the lengths of skirts`v drtses, pants, overcoats, and the. like, according to thepartieular use to which the protector is to be put, and I will in all probability market the protectors in standard sizes, and ofniaterials adapted to diii'erent uses.

Then the Vupper portion of the bag has been so dropped a box-like portion'lG is presented beneath the lines 8 of stitching and into which the bottoms of dresses, overcoats, ctc. may be easily placed and these bottoms of garments will not thereafter interfere with the upward movement of the upper portion of the bag in the act of closing the same, this constituting a highly important feature of my protector in view of the practical inability to successfully drape clothing in bags of this type to prevent the wrinkling thereof.

In Fig. 3 I have shown the full equivalent of the form already described with the difference that I provide cords 17 as a substitute for the strips 9 and 15 and I also provide a frame 1S in the plane of the lines 8` of stitches in the form shown in Figs. 1

and 2, this last named frame positively insuring the boxelike lower bag portion 1G for the reception of the bottoms of the garment-s preparatory to closing the protector.

My protector may be readily collapsed to occupy very litt-le room, :is for storage, transportation, etc., and the cost thereof over the conventional types now in use will be inconsiderable.

lVhile I have shown two distinct embodiments of my invention, I do not desire to confine myself thereto but may make changes thereover providing, however, that the boxlike portion 1G is presented, when the upper bag portion is dropped, for the reception. ot' the bottoms of clothing previous to drawing the collapsed. bag portion upwardly over the frame 10.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, iszl. A garment protector, comprisnga bag open at its top, a drawstring therefor, a frame in the upper portion of said bag., means or'suspending said frames, a frame intermediate the height of said bag, adj aeent its bottom, means joining said frames, and means for permanently, securing the lower frame to Said bag, said bag presenting a boxlike lower portion below said*l lower frame when the upper bag portion has been dropped to permit arrangement ofthe lower portions of garments suspended from the upper 4frame previous todrawing'v up the upper portion of said Bag from its lowered position. j'

2. A garment protector, comprising a tion, when the upper bag bag open at its top, a drawstring a frame in the upper portion of said bag, means for suspending said frame, a frame adjacent ne lower end marient connection .'ible strips joining opposite ends of said frames, the lower vportion of said bag below said lower frame presenting a box formaportion has been dropped, for arranging the lower portions of garments suspended from said upper frame previous to drawing up said lowered portion of said bag to inclose the garments.

CLAUDE A. CONOVER.

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